Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-04-01

| Dakota, and between flood and blizzard
his Western fever has somewhat abated.
He Is expected nome in two werks......
There is much sickness, particularly
among young people.
ESSEN JUNCTION.
The buildings and portion of their con
( tents OF job Bates, which were burned
| sunday last, were insured through Gen
! I. > Peck's agency of Burlington 10y Hon.
NJ. a. Bingham Of this place IN the Royal
for $500. The loss of $500 ON the build
ings was total one. On the personal
property there was about $500 salvage as
most of the loss was occasiOned by rough
handling in ing the same from the
building; AT o'clock p. IN. Thursday the
loss had been satisfactorily adjusted by
all parties and paid over to the insured.
sunday evening one of the Benjamin
| sisters gave Il temperance address to
good audience. There was a monthly
concert at the Baptist church Sunday
! evening. Some OF the salvation Army
from Burlington held a meeting in village
hall sunday evening Job Bates has
moved his family into the rooms over
! the store in Me- chants Exchange block.
He expects to build a good set Of build
ings on the sppt where the other was
! burned last week. Mr.. and Mrs c.
6. Williams went last week to Ogdens-
burgh, N, Y, to visit their daughter,
Mrs. Baldwin. He returned Monday
night but Mrs. w. is to remaiu for a few
days. James Vide is moving this week
into the Fay Tubbs house. James is ont
again, having recovered from long i'll
ness.
Middlebury
Will H. Bond finished his term of en-
| ployment at f. a. Bonds Saturday and
Monday he went to Boston to study letter
painting and designing and, ultimately.
to Locating there. =. The Green Mountain
Pulp company will build a large extern
sion to their mill at the Papermill Falls
as soon as the spring opens for the accom-
mediation of two new shakers"
! Charles Billings, "a graduate of the college
IN the last class, who Is teaching in
Munson, Mass, is in town and
Will spend his vacation here and in Ripton
..... There Is great scarcity of desirable
| tenements in towns. Prof. Granville
wager of the college delivered an excel
/ lent address before the y. NJ. G.. A. Sun
day afternoon
Mr.. Value Stancheff, a Bulgarian student
from the University of Vermont, deliver
ed an interesting lecture at the Congrega-
tlonal church Sunday evening on Chris.
tan Missions in Bulgaria The ouan-
/ tlty or butter brought to market Monday
was light and the market was slightly
weaker, but prices remained about the
same, ranging for good article from %
to % cents per pound.
The immediate bad effects of TUESDAYS
storm have measurably passed away.
| The people OF the country towns worked
hard all day "Wednesday to open the roads
and communication was partially restored
! Ihursday morning, the mail carriers all
arriving in good shape, but generally late
...... Mr.. George G. Chapman remembers
! mat Just ~ years ago, on March -, 2j and
26, lS4I, there was just such another snow
storm as that of Tuesday and Tuesday
night, only that 1t was considerable worse
] npppln "a tn Il ha,
out of their houses, as they could not ret
out of their doors without shoveling the
snow away ahead of them There will
be meeting of the school district au-
thorities for the abatement of taxes at the
clerks office on Saturday evening of this
week. k....W. d. Lane has gone to Boston
go, George Marshall and wife have gone
to New York and may go to Washington
...:... Ernest Albee, son of Prof. Solon
Albee of l.angdon, n. H., formerly pro
fessor in Middlebury college, is in town on
a visit, and is stopping at Professor w. H.
! Parker's.
The lecture of DR.. D. c. Hawley of Bur
lngton on Health" delivered at Y. NJ
G.. A, rooms Friday evening was an ad-
mirable one .....G. K. Marshall has re-.
turned home, but Mrs. Marshall has gone
on to Washington for short visit
Prof William Parker has almost com
pletely recovered from his recent severe
| illness and is now able to be about
There is reason for believing that another
batch OF Salvatlonsts will lay siege to thr
town TINS spring The auction sale OF
the machinery and finished and unfinish =
ed marble work now in the old Cuttrr
Marble companys finishing shons was
adjourned from saturday to a later date
1t Is said that another company will soon
occupy the shops for finishing marble and
granite WORK.. Henry l.. Branch rave
the boys surprise party Saturday morn
lug 10y setting up the clgers all Around
The secret OF it was that he was married n
lew Gays since, the party of the second
part being Miss Sarah Diamond of Wi.
ton, \. \. Rev. j. j. Noe tied he nuntiaI
hnpu' hulher farnsWorth is suffering
! win spring disease and is confined to
the house. The stock of drurs ma
medicines in the Rider drug store is to he
sold at auction on April "a LARGO
number OF cows have recently died in this
NlcIhlly from one cause or another
ne sprlh9 ana summer term of the
graded schools began on Monday with
the alme teachers as last term.
Ihere was big turn ont at the animal
school meeting OF district No 4 Ohe vii.
Iaee dlstrct) which was held on Tuesday
afternoon at the school hall. Indeed the
hiee'inG re, WAS much the largest one held
mere III many years, and about n dozen la
dies attended and voted. The laroe at-
tendance was called out by a widesnraad
feeling OF unrest and hankerinp in Ger
talh quarters Tor change in the mana ge-
menl ot the school. For several weeks
past school matters have been very pener
any ana very earnestly discussed, so it had
oeen expected That the meeting would be
an exciting, II nota Revolutionary one Rut
II was very quiet one ami in spite of the
larSe at ehdahce, passed off as tamely as
coula nave oren desired. The following ofIi-
GERS were chosen: moderator, c. NJ Wilds .
CLERK, Henry l.. Sheldon, reelected ;
prudential committee, Geo ge Ham,
Fletcher, CHARLES NJ. Wilds and Rev,
Alra +, Carpenter Charles T.. Pinney.
treasurer Is, s. Beckwth and James NJ.
Slade, auditors, and NJ. A. Munro, col
lector were all reelected. The reports of
the treasurer, auditors and prudential
committee were submitted, and were ac-
cepted and adopted. The report of the
committee said, among other things, that
the school had been emnently successful
ana had Inainta ned its high character
during the past year, and that the teachers
were doing good and conscious work
from the report of the auditors il is
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